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Violence Through Environmental Discrimination - Causes, Rwanda Arena, and Conflict Model (Hardcover, 1999 ed.)
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Violence Through Environmental Discrimination - Causes, Rwanda Arena, and Conflict Model (Hardcover, 1999 ed.)
Series: Social Indicators Research Series, 2
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The degradation of renewables - land and freshwater - worldwide
leads to conflict over access and/or distribution of these
resources. However, not all conflicts become violent.
Environmentally-caused violence is hardly found in relations
between states. Today, mainly in developing countries, there is a
correlation between environmental degradation and violent
conflicts. As this synthesis of 40 case studies indicates, there
are different causal pathways of current violent conflicts and wars
that can be traced to the environmental roots of the conflict.
Rwanda is a good example to demonstrate the interaction of ethnic,
social, political and ecological factors. Whereas most studies in
this field focus on classical security issues, the author here puts
an emphasis on growing structural heterogeneity in agricultural
societies which tend to discriminate chiefly against those rural
producers who are the victims of bad resource allocations, unequal
resource distribution, high dependence on natural capital, and bad
state performance. One major conclusion to be discussed among
scholars, teachers, and advanced students and to be taken seriously
by professionals in international organizations is the following:
competing land tenure systems, unclear property rights, large-scale
farming, and nationalizing land by discriminating against
small-holders, pastoralists, the landless, etc. provide a
considerable potential for conflict and, thus, contribute to
unsustainable resource use, social unrest, and political
instability.
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